I’ve been wondering a lot about absurdist humour. Dan Carlin relates a story of an old Air Force colonel who
I’ve been wondering a lot about absurdist humour. Dan Carlin relates a story of an old Air Force colonel who
Lots of good articles on Canadian brutality in WW1 if you do a search. As for war crimes in particular, here’s one of many articles mentioning how Canadians killed prisoners of war:
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/the-forgotten-ferocity-of-canadas-soldiers-in-the-great-war
Birds are reptiles.
I mean, we’re kind of known for war crimes too. Was anyone in WW1 worse than the Canadians?
Jack & Diane, by John Mellencamp
I mean, Mademoiselle Cochonne would be her own special kind of lady.
Holy shit! This dude’s pluralising in Greek!
Do you change the emphasis? da-ko-TANT?
Canada’s Brightest Ditch-Digger
Yup, sounds like it. I think this is what the French call “a crime of passion”. The idea is that the moment is so enraging that one cannot be held accountable for one’s actions in that moment. It’s a kind of, “fuck around and find out,” law.
“Vamipre”.
When they are in Kill Mode they are absolutely vicious. They’d reach through the fence and pull the chickens’ heads off.
They’re naked seeds. I get you.
That was the first word in my head: nope. There’s a whole lot of nope in this photo.
“Yeah, just wheel the piano over against the far wall.”
I’d be freaking out every time a kid jumped off a chair, or came down the stairs too fast. Strictly love -making. No fucking allowed.
Darjeeling had this feeling in lots of places, but not this extreme.
I had a customs officer take me aside and interrogate me after a series of long international flights. “If you don’t have anything illegal, why are you so jumpy?” “Because I’ve been awake for 48 hours straight and I’m getting interrogated by a guy in a uniform determined to pin something on me!?!” Motherfucker.
“Surf Wax America” -Weezer
The leaves change colour
Technology fails humans
A second stone age.
So it’s Francophones, not Anglophones misgendering you?
Y’all didn’t hit a paywall? I wanted to read that article.
I’ve been wondering a lot about absurdism in humour. There are people who laugh when they see something disastrous happen, like a man reflexively trying to stop a cement truck from tipping and getting squashed dead. Or a recent news story of the only fatality in a school bus crash: it was an observer who got hit by a vehicle as he ran across the highway to see if the kids were ok. A lot of the time this laughing response to a disaster is interpreted as schadenfreude, but a good portion of the time I believe it’s absurdism.
We try so hard to have agency, to do something, but the World doesn’t give a fuck. You have two choices when shit goes so wrong: you can wail about the unfairness of it all, or you can laugh at the absurdity of our efforts in the face of the colossal chaos of it all. The laughter is stronger.
It’s interesting to me that some cultures seem to have absurd humour baked in. The Aussies and Kiwis seem to have it. They just make jokes about and laugh at the most horrific situations.